According what I read, most of them are rescues that he soft releases, but some of them come back later, especially in the winter.
And why wouldn’t you come back?! The trash pandas are fatter than his cats.
And we JUST played WKRP last night in response to the exploding whale videos posted here, so it’s so fitting.
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This headline made my day. Thank you @AndreaJames 
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James Blackwood has a lot of huge fans in his Nova Scotia neighborhood
But not, I’m guessing, any human ones there, given that he’s attracting an army of raccoons to that neighborhood, and they’re going to be attacking and killing pets, destroying gardens, shitting everywhere…
I fully expected this video to go like another one I’ve seen, of a woman hand feeding a mass of raccoons. Someone off camera expresses some concern, to which she replies something like, “Don’t worry, they’re my babies, they’d never - arrrggh they bit me!”
Yeah, there are a whole lot of reasons why this is a bad idea.
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That’s what I was thinking. Really playing with fire, buddy. They will rip your roof off to get inside.
(They are cute, though.)
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Even if they start off that way it just takes one rabies carrier to mess up your day real good.
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this guy has kids & he misses them so he talks to his coons like family
Where does one “rescue” racoons?
It’s pretty hard for a racoon to get so fat in the wild, some of them have a hard time even jumping onto that fence. No wonder they come back for that processed stuff he’s giving them. But I don’t think this is a healthy diet, neither for him nor for the racoons.
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Yeah, I’ll say it: those do not look like healthy racoons. Like, these are the 600-life equivalents. 4x of healthy weight. Diabetes possible in racoons?
I fully acknowledge I know nothing about racoon metabolism or dietary needs, and any racoon I’ve seen, in the woods, zoo, or in the city, are lean AF. Not ribs-showing lean, but healthy lean. And I’m not mass-shaming.
There’s also issues with what happens when this guy isn’t able to continue. Unless someone keeps feeding this large, and probably growing nursery, when the food supply ends, the collapse will see many dead racoons. But Nature, red in tooth and claw, will rebalance. Might even be considered natural, assuming you allow the human-caused explosion as natural.
I wonder if this guy could make a living out of this. Which might provide an ongoing revenue stream to prevent the collapse when he’s gone. Which seems sad, but then consider what people will pay for online.
But damn, racoons are cute!
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Just say it!
Those raccoons, they fat!
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They are pretty chonky around here, but they have access to lots of trash dumpsters in the apartment complex. Lots of trash kittys too. I’ve seen a groundhog behind my unit as well.
But yeah, he probably isn’t providing them the best meals.
His wife was the one who started this, and continues doing it after her death.
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Too many raaa-coooooons
are being fed in the dark.
Too many ra-ca-ca-ca-ca-coons
are get-ting large.
(Thx, Primus)
Some guy did that with tigers, why not raccoons. The “raccoon whisperer” becomes Raccoon King.
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Sorry to break the joy, but this is not good!
Yes, racoons look nice and funny due to movement and fur coloration, and being ‘chunky’ givea them a carooonish look, but those are just overfed, trained to human dependency, pet racoons.
Real wild animal rescue would aim.to release them back to the wild, not instigate feeding frenzy on your porch for giggles and youtube fame.
This guy is the male equivalent to a “crazy cat lady” and this is not OK.
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It’s like those staged photographs of insects and frogs, snapshots of them in amusing predicaments, often as part of a motivational poster.
So Cute!..
…and then when you see how the photographer achieved the image, with fishing line and glue and special jigs… suddenly its not so cute any more.
These racoons make me sad when I see the larger picture. But Disney has trained everyone to only appreciate the snapshot view of wildlife, so it’s allowed.
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